Tired of pretending I'm a fictional character. Moved to erosenfield. Friend me if I don't friend you first.

Also: wet_asphalt_rss might work at some point too.

For both of you who are paying attention, the first paragraph completely rewritten.

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Ah, there's nothing like a whole room packed full with unpublished writers with no credentials JUST LIKE YOU desperately trying to get someone to look at their work. Gives you that nice, warm, soul-dead feeling right inside ( Read more... )

I paid $50 for a 15-minute-meeting at the convention with this guy, who seems to publish mostly non-fiction. What's interesting is his submissions page which asks for a lot more materials than most. Which makes me think maybe what I should be doing is putting together a sort of "Press Kit", like one would for a band. Certainly a document entitled " ( Read more... )

Come tomorrow I will be here:

New York Round Table Writers' Conference

In Through the Out Door
One Novel, Zero Credentials or How Not to Get Published

"It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them."

So... awesome... must... contain... awe...

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I find myself in an embarrassing position. Previously I slammed Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet as being unreadable. I have since discovered that it is co-published by Kelly Link, a writer I greatly admire, and has published Tim Pratt who I think is a very good writer. This throws my whole evaluation of Lady Churchill's into doubt and makes me ( Read more... )